Lawyer: Client had nothing to do with Batie murder

TRENTON — A lawyer Wednesday said his client — the second suspect in the Veterans Day shooting death of a Mercer County prison officer — was at the scene, but had nothing to do with the fatal 22-shot barrage at a Chambersburg landmark.

Attorney Jeff Broderick, public defender for Hykeem Tucker, made the defense after it came out that the suspect has been transferred to the Hudson County jail to keep him away from colleagues of the murder victim — Corrections Officer Carl Batie — at the Mercer jail.